{"id":696,"date":"2022-10-18T13:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/kanye-west-to-buy-conservative-social-media-app-parler-national\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:25:22","slug":"kanye-west-to-purchase-conservative-social-media-app-parler-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/kanye-west-to-purchase-conservative-social-media-app-parler-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West to purchase conservative social media app Parler &#8211; Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/kanye-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kanye West<\/a> (now often called Ye) has agreed to buy the controversial, conservative social networking website <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/parler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Parler, which advertises itself as \u201cthe premier world free speech platform,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/ye-formerly-known-as-kanye-west-to-acquire-parler-platform-301650579.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced the acquisition<\/a> on Monday morning. The app is commonly seen by its predominately right-wing customers as a substitute for current social media choices like Twitter or Fb.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"readmore\">\n<p class=\"c-readmore\" id=\"recirc_test_read_more\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\"><strong>Learn extra: <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9174840\/kanye-west-white-lives-matter-t-shirt\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Kanye West defends \u2018White Lives Matter\u2019 T-shirt, calls Black Lives Matter a \u2018scam\u2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tKanye West defends \u2018White Lives Matter\u2019 T-shirt, calls Black Lives Matter a \u2018rip-off\u2019\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<section id=\"recirc_test_inline_stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile is-hidden l-inlineStories--abTest\" aria-label=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Learn Extra<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline\">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9174840\/kanye-west-white-lives-matter-t-shirt\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kanye-west-candace-owens-white-lives-matter.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" data-title=\"\">Kanye West defends \u2018White Lives Matter\u2019 T-shirt, calls Black Lives Matter a \u2018rip-off\u2019<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>Parler\u2019s father or mother firm, Parlement Applied sciences, wrote in a press release, \u201cThe acquisition ensures Parler a future function in creating an uncancelable ecosystem the place all voices are welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Final yr, Parler was <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/7641984\/parler-app-relaunches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compelled offline<\/a> after main service suppliers accused the app of failing to police violent content material associated to the lethal <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/january-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan. 6<\/a> assault on the U.S. Capitol by followers of then-U.S. president Donald Trump. It launched its new platform in Feb. 2021 with \u201csustainable, unbiased expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video_gallery\">\n<section id=\"inline-carousel\" class=\"l-videoCarousel l-videoCarousel--embed c-carousel\" data-video-carousel-play-inline=\"true\" data-video-carousel-init=\"false\" aria-label=\"Video carousel contains 3 videos. First video: Kanye West pays tribute to designer Virgil Abloh with choral performance\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__inner\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__featured\">\n<div class=\"c-video c-videoPlay \" data-iframe-receiver=\"\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-displayinline-featured=\"true\" data-displayinline-type=\"video\" data-displayinline-player-id=\"inline\" data-displayinline-video-id=\"8409514\" data-displayinline-ratio=\"16:9\" data-displayinline=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/playlist\/8409514,7272850,7196002\/?poster=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.wp.com%2Fmedia.globalnews.ca%2Fvideostatic%2Fnews%2Fgrogdpd69x-pywaooajuw%2Fvirgilabloh.jpg%3Fw%3D1200%26%23038%3Bquality%3D70%26%23038%3Bstrip%3Dall#autoplay&amp;stickyiframe=inline\" data-displayinline-playlist=\"8409514,7272850,7196002\" data-displayinline-sticky=\"true\">\n<div class=\"c-video__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__placeholder\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Kanye West pays tribute to designer Virgil Abloh with choral performance'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/news\/grogdpd69x-pywaooajuw\/virgilabloh.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, \" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/news\/grogdpd69x-pywaooajuw\/virgilabloh.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&amp;strip=all 450w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/news\/grogdpd69x-pywaooajuw\/virgilabloh.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&amp;strip=all 720w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/media.globalnews.ca\/videostatic\/news\/grogdpd69x-pywaooajuw\/virgilabloh.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1040w,\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__overlay\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"c-video__duration\">0:26<\/time><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-video__title\">Kanye West pays tribute to designer Virgil Abloh with choral efficiency<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__glide glide \">\n<div class=\"c-carousel__buttons glide__arrows\" data-glide-el=\"controls\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"l-videoCarousel__prev c-carousel__button c-carousel__prev glide__arrow glide__arrow--left\" data-glide-dir=\"&lt;\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Earlier Video<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"l-videoCarousel__next c-carousel__button c-carousel__next glide__arrow glide__arrow--right\" data-glide-dir=\"&gt;\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Subsequent Video<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"c-carousel__goto\" data-glide-dir=\"=0\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<!-- video stream item --><\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>Parlement Applied sciences didn&#8217;t disclose the quantity to be paid by Ye. Nevertheless, as a part of the settlement in precept, Parler employees will proceed to offer technical assist for the app, corresponding to non-public cloud companies.<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline\">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9204443\/buckingham-palace-renovation-king-charles\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/King-Charles-III-e1663164519521.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" data-title=\"\">$500-million reno means King Charles gained\u2019t reside in Buckingham Palace for five years<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9205236\/canada-covid-recession-chrystia-freeland\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/CP165061808.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" data-title=\"\">Canada going through \u2018closing act of the COVID recession,\u2019 Freeland says<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cYe has change into the richest Black man in historical past by means of music and attire and is taking a daring stance towards his latest censorship from Massive Tech, utilizing his far-reaching abilities to additional lead the battle to create a really non-cancelable setting,\u201d the Parlement Applied sciences assertion reads.<\/p>\n<p>In early October, Ye, 45, was <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9188212\/kanye-west-twitter-instagram-restricted-anti-semitic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restricted<\/a> from posting on Instagram and Twitter following a number of erratic, antisemitic feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper turned dressmaker tweeted that he would go \u201closs of life con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.\u201d (A reference to the defence readiness situation \u2014 DEFCON \u2014 utilized by the USA Armed Forces.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ye additionally posted <a href=\"https:\/\/etcanada.com\/news\/934498\/kanye-west-attacks-diddy-in-online-war-over-white-lives-matter-shirts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">textual content screenshots<\/a> between him and Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs to Instagram with the caption \u201cJesus is Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within the since-deleted publish, Ye accused Combs of being managed by Jewish individuals. The dialog between Ye and Combs was spurred by the latest launch of Ye\u2019s extremely controversial \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9174840\/kanye-west-white-lives-matter-t-shirt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Lives Matter<\/a>\u201d T-shirts as a part of his Yeezy Season 9 occasion at Paris Vogue Week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable c-figure--contained c-figure--containedPortrait\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tKanye West and Candace Owens sporting \u2018White Lives Matter\u2019 shirts on the Yeezy Season 9 occasion at Paris Vogue Week.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tTwitter \/ Candace Owens\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"readmore\">\n<p class=\"c-readmore\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"c-readmore__label\"><strong>Learn extra: <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-readmore__link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8811474\/kanye-west-pastor-lawsuit-donda-sermon-sample\/\" data-track-region=\"content-read-more\" title=\"Kanye West sued by pastor claiming \u2018Donda\u2019 song sampled his sermon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tKanye West sued by pastor claiming \u2018Donda\u2019 music sampled his sermon\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn a world the place conservative opinions are thought-about to be controversial now we have to ensure now we have the fitting to freely categorical ourselves,\u201d Ye stated within the Parlement Applied sciences assertion.<\/p>\n<p>Within the assertion, Parlement Applied sciences CEO George Farmer stated, \u201cYe is making a groundbreaking transfer into the free speech media area and can by no means need to worry being faraway from social media once more.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues under commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as once more, Ye proves that he&#8217;s one step forward of the legacy media narrative,\u201d Farmer stated.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition settlement is predicted to shut within the fourth quarter of 2022.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 With recordsdata from Reuters\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2022 International Information, a division of Corus Leisure Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Kanye West (now often called Ye) has agreed to buy the controversial, conservative social networking website Parler. Parler, which advertises itself as \u201cthe premier world free speech platform,\u201d introduced the acquisition on Monday morning. The app is commonly seen by its predominately right-wing customers as a substitute for current social media choices like Twitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}